Carolyne Hawley was born in Chicago and raised on a farm in the Illinois heartland. At an early age, she was drawing the horses and landscape scenes she found around her and began what was to become a lifelong love and education in art technique.

Hawley was studied with many fine artist. Initially self-taught, she notes that the late Burt Proctor, one of the founders of the Laguna Art Pageant, has been a major influence on her career. Variety comes easily to this artist. Her subjects include everything from magnificent white horses to figures to beautiful floral gardens. Hawley approaches her art with a strong belief in an inner-spirit and a higher consciousness that seem to give her paintings a transcendent quality.

She exhibits extensively throughout the Midwest and the West in galleries and has paintings in many private as well as public collections. Singer Faith Hill is a collector. She has won many awards as well as popular votes of the public. Carolyne is a member of "Oil Painters of America" and is currently being published by McGraw Graphics, New York and Leanin' Tree publishers in Colorado. She also teaches workshops in Southern California.